Razor 1911

Razor 1911 is a warez and demo group with a history similar to Fairlight. According to the U.S. Department of Justice Razor 1911 is the oldest game software piracy ring on the internet.

The group was originally founded under the name "Razor 2992 " Doctor No, Insane TTM and Sector9 in October 1985 in Norway as a Commodore 64 software cracking group. The number behind Razor should be different from other groups that could also select the name Razor. Shortly after, they changed in 2992 from 1911 to give a meaning to the number. " 1911 " means " 777" in hexadecimal, so you wanted to stand out from the others, the 666 used the number inflationary. Over the years, the group split several times, but could always attract new members.

Today, the group is still active, so they released example Warez of Duke Nukem Forever, Crysis, The Sims 3, Prototype, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Far Cry 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Anno 1404, FIFA 2010, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, BioShock 2, Metro 2033 and Mass Effect 2, and could provide the first cracker group a working crack for the game Gothic 3. Furthermore, they have succeeded, a crack for the game The Settlers 7, published by the spring of 2010, to create new copy of Ubisoft. On the Demo Party 2011 revision Razor 1911 obtained in the category "PC 64K Intro" second place for the demo " We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Vote Disk".

Operation Buccaneer

Operation Buccaneer, an undercover action of the U.S. Customs Service, led to convictions in this group.

2003, the 31 -year-old Shane E. Pitman ( Pitbull ) was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

In 2004, the 38 -year-old Sean Michael Breen, also a member of this group, was sentenced to 50 months in prison and three years probation. He was also committed to a compensation payment of approximately U.S. $ 690,000 to Cisco Systems. Breen had forged hardware orders on behalf of Cisco customers and have it delivered to an address where he she accepted with an accomplice to the device then at low prices to sell.